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Law’s Atiba Ellis explains difference between voting in the 21st and 18th centuries

Can my partner—or anyone else—find out who I vote for
SelfAtiba Ellis, the Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar and professor of law, noted that modern voting privacy is a significant improvement over the 18th-century system through which votes were publicly declared. “No state lets individuals know who any person voted for,” Ellis says, emphasizing that voting secrecy ensures personal autonomy and a level playing field in democracy.